Explores the anxious and emotional events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, showing how the president and the American public responded in the pivotal hours that followed the attack.
Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941,?a date which will live in infamy." History would prove him correct; the events of that day?when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor?ended the Great Depression, changed the course of FDR's presidency, and swept America into Wor…
"On June 22, 1941, radios all over the Soviet Union crackled with the announcement that the country had been attacked by Nazi Germany. But the voice on the airwaves was not the familiar one of Joseph Stalin; it was the voice of his deputy, Molotov. Paralyzed by Hitler's unexpect…
"During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today's border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzy...…
Zachidnoukraïns'ka trahedija 1941
by Romaniv, Oleh M., Feduščak, Inna V.
fromUkraïnoznavča Bìblìoteka NTŠ
Was ist die Welt aus der Sicht eines sizilianischen Jungen, der 1935 sechs Jahre alt ist? Eine chaotische Gemeinschaft von sogenannten Erwachsenen, die nach der Pfeife eines Duce namens Mussolini tanzen und Kindern auf ernst gemeinte Fragen unverständliche Antworten geben. Das p…
The U.S. Army GHQ Maneuvers of 1941 is a masterful study of the largest military training exercises ever conducted by a military organization attempting to mobilize and modernize simultaneously during a rapidly changing international security environment. As suggested by Christo…
The U.S. Army GHQ Maneuvers of 1941 is a masterful study of the largest military training exercises ever conducted by a military organization attempting to mobilize and modernize simultaneously during a rapidly changing international security environment. As suggested by Christo…
In Hitler's Army, Omer Bartov successfully challenges the prevailing view that the German Army of World War II was an apolitical, professional fighting force, having little to do with the Nazi Party. Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union -- …
In 'From Boulanger to Stockhausen: Interviews and a Memoir', the Hungarian-born musician Bálint András Varga presents a treasure trove of interviews with noted international figures in twentieth-century music. Varga's subjects include such luminaries as György Ligeti, Eugene Orm…